In a country that really, really, has a hard time accepting gay men into its society, or much of anything that may be deemed sexual, I gotta ask what is this dude… or dudette doin…

maybe he forgot this grotesque scene of a few years back when 2 gay teen/young adult boys got hangings and lynching in the middle east" target="_blank">lynched in a horrific way by being pushed off a moving vehicle and hanging there for a few minutes till the suffering ended forever.

here is a picture of the noose being put on the victims of harsh Islamic justice.

This is most likely the sickest shit of all… the huge crowd gathering around to watch the main event. They are climbing the walls, trees and anything to get a better view of the entertainment for the day.

some commentary from a site called gayegypt

This method of being pushed from the back of a lorry may have been used by the Taliban but has otherwise rarely, if ever, been heard of for the last 200 years. Image right: The most recent similar “horse and cart” style hanging on record - Tyburn in 1780.When Gay groups voiced their outrage at the execution of two Gay teenagers by the Iranian Government last summer ( click here for our earlier report ), they were blissfully unaware of the true barbarity of the hanging.

The picture of the “hanging lorry” has only recently been circulated on the internet ( Doug Ireland weblog October 2005 ). One of our team showed it and the other photographs to a friend who was researching a book on hanging methods. She was deeply shocked.

The style of execution where the victim is pushed off the back of a lorry was of a type rarely, if ever, heard of in Iran before but which may have been practised by the Taliban in Afghanistan. A similar method, employing a horse and cart, was also used in Britain at Tyburn but outlawed over two hundred years ago !

The photographs clearly show that a short drop execution method was used. The two boys were made to walk up on to the back of a lorry, were each attache

d to a noose and then the vehicle moved off. This would have left them suspended in agony for up to several minutes before they would have lapsed into unconsciousness.

A “short drop” means a drop of only one or two feet, which usually causes the victim to suffer more since it is not long enough to break the neck but creates enough force to sever the neck muscles and skin. According to Professor Stuart Banner, even in the case

of a normal drop hanging the results can be horrific.

“As the rope encircled their necks, or as the force of the drop wrenched the larynx from the trachea, they lost the ability to breathe. The mouth and nose turned dark purple. The eyes bulged monstrously wide. Convulsions extended gradually throughout the body. Asphyxiation took several excruciating minutes.”

In the case of these boys a drop of around eight feet or almost three meters would be normally required to ensure a relatively quick end but as you can see from the pictures this is clearly not the case.

It’s also noticeable that the rope used is of the antiquated hangman’s noose type, which is centuries old, and tends to cause death by gradual strangulation rather than the quicker methods employed in most other countries whi

ch still retain death by hanging as a capital punishment.

The number of coils above the noose was also minimal. When the drop occurs, they slide down and the force of impact can, if sufficient, break the neck which means the victim is immediately rendered unconscious.

However, while it’s impossible to be precise, they seem to have used just four to five coils above the noose which would minimize the impact force and lengthen the time taken for the victims to die. The traditional noose is normally comprised of from five to thirteen coils, with a larger number preferred to increase the chance of a quicker, less prolonged, death.

They also seem to have been blindfolded at a much earlier stage than would be normal. You will notice that at least one of the boys, and presumably both, are led from the van blindfolded ( see photo 2 below ). Typically, in most countries, a prisoner would not be blindfolded or hooded until the very last moment just prior to the noose being put around their neck. This is because, although they will see the gallows, their executioners and the crowd, it is generally accepted that most prisoners are more frightened by not knowing what is happening.

You will also notice how the blindfold begins to come off one of the boys just moments before his execution. But more disconcerting is the fact that in the final photograph showing them hanging, you can not see any evidence of the blindfolds. This is suprising since you can clearly see, in the photograph taken prior to execution, strands of the blindfold hanging to one side of the head on both boys. However in the final picture there is no evidence of a blindfold on either boy. It is as if some sadistic executioner decided to remove the blindfolds at the last moment ( the exact reverse of the normal procedure ). Perhaps so the crowd could better witness the agony of their deaths.